Notes on DOW data archive for VORTEX2

DOW data are organized by day (local time).
Within each day, files are organized by DOW
Within each radar subdirectory, files are organized by deployment (e.g. dep1, dep2)
So, for example, DOW6 data for 5 June, deployment 1 is in directory ../dow6/dep1
For all these sweeps, elevation and azimuthal corrections have been made.  Latitude,
Longitude, and altitude have been entered into headers.
Readme files in each directory, named DeplInfo, contain the details of these corrections, 
including deployment/undeployment times, and the subjectively determined uncertainties in the
azimuthal corrections.

On some days, for some radars, there are sweeps from times when radars were not level,
or were moving.  These are in directories labeled undeployedSwps.No elevation or azimuth 
corrections have been made, and latitude/longitude/altitude are not correct.

-Each sweep file contains various radar parameters
	-VE is unedited Doppler velocity data
	-VC is a copy of VE thresholded on NCP of 0.3
        -DM is received power
        -DZ is reflectivity
        -NCP is normalized coherent power
        -SW is spectral width calculated from NCP
	-DCC is copy of DZ with NCP threshold of 0.3
        -DCZ is coherent reflectivity

CSWR has dealaiased and decluttered sweeps for some of these deployments, but they are not 
in this archive at this time (02 November 2009).

Contact CSWR at admin@cswr.org for more information concerning these or other data.